[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (ODATA-462) Support for HTTP verb tunnelling is essential because client libraries may not support PATCH

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Ralf Handl commented on ODATA-462:
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We already discussed that in ODATA-145 and decided that client libraries can wrap the PATCH request in a batch request if their underlying infrastructure doesn't support PATCH.

It's safer anyway for client libraries to rely on what they know about their infrastructure instead of what they hope that all those unknown servers support.

I propose to close this ticket without action.

> Support for HTTP verb tunnelling is essential because client libraries may not support PATCH
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ODATA-462
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-462
>             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: OData Protocol 
>    Affects Versions: V4.0_WD01
>            Reporter: Evan Ireland
>
> Some client libraries (e.g. HttpURLConnection in JDK 1.7) don't support PATCH, e.g. see this stack trace:
> java.net.ProtocolException: Invalid HTTP method: PATCH
>     at java.net.HttpURLConnection.setRequestMethod(HttpURLConnection.java:428)
> To ensure maximum interoperability with clients (and not force clients to use PUT rather than PATCH), we should require OData services to support HTTP verb tunnelling.
> See X-HTTP-Method in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd541471.aspx

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